Museo Nacional de Costa Rica (CR)

Specialty: Costa Rica, Mesoamerica, and neotropics; tropical ferns; tropical fungi.
Date Founded: 1887.
Contacts: Armando Estrada, Director,, museohn@racsa.co.cr
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 7 January 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 191,859 specimen records
  • 112,800 (59%) georeferenced
  • 178,949 (93%) identified to species
  • 281 families
  • 2,364 genera
  • 10,897 species
  • 10,897 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Alocasia (3)
  • Anthurium (2530)
  • Arisaema (2)
  • Caladium (5)
  • Chlorospatha (4)
  • Colocasia (6)
  • Dieffenbachia (90)
  • Dracontium (7)
  • Heteropsis (36)
  • Homalomena (34)
  • Monstera (375)
  • Montrichardia (15)
  • Philodendron (895)
  • Pistia (21)
  • Rhodospatha (14)
  • Spathiphyllum (209)
  • Stenospermation (157)
  • Syngonium (142)
  • Urospatha (22)
  • Xanthosoma (71)
  • Zantedeschia (5)